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Main Authors: Grats, Yuri V., Spirin, Pavel
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19502
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author Grats, Yuri V.
Spirin, Pavel
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Spirin, Pavel
contents We develop precise formulation for the effects of vacuum polarization near a pointlike source with a zero-range ($δ$-like) potential in three spatial dimensions. There are different ways of introducing $δ$-interaction in the framework of quantum theory. We discuss the approach based on the concept of self-adjoint extensions of densely defined symmetric operators. Within this approach we consider the real massive scalar field in three-dimensional Euclidean space with a single extracted point. Appropriate boundary conditions imposed at this point enable one to consider all self-adjoint extensions of $- Δ$ as operators which can describe a pointlike source with a zero-range potential. In this framework we compute the renormalized vacuum expectation value of the field square $\langle ϕ^{ 2}(x)\rangle_{\rm ren}$ and the renormalized vacuum average of the scalar-field's energy-momentum tensor $\langle T_{μν}(x)\rangle_{\rm ren}$. Asymptotic cases are discussed in detail.
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spellingShingle Vacuum Polarization Effects of Pointlike Impurity
Grats, Yuri V.
Spirin, Pavel
High Energy Physics - Theory
We develop precise formulation for the effects of vacuum polarization near a pointlike source with a zero-range ($δ$-like) potential in three spatial dimensions. There are different ways of introducing $δ$-interaction in the framework of quantum theory. We discuss the approach based on the concept of self-adjoint extensions of densely defined symmetric operators. Within this approach we consider the real massive scalar field in three-dimensional Euclidean space with a single extracted point. Appropriate boundary conditions imposed at this point enable one to consider all self-adjoint extensions of $- Δ$ as operators which can describe a pointlike source with a zero-range potential. In this framework we compute the renormalized vacuum expectation value of the field square $\langle ϕ^{ 2}(x)\rangle_{\rm ren}$ and the renormalized vacuum average of the scalar-field's energy-momentum tensor $\langle T_{μν}(x)\rangle_{\rm ren}$. Asymptotic cases are discussed in detail.
title Vacuum Polarization Effects of Pointlike Impurity
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19502